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What you do is start up from the Vista cd. Then all you do is extend click
on 1 of the hard drives and click the extend button. (i dont think there the
format button will work at this moment.) once when u see 1 hard drive
instead of 2 then that means both information are in 1 partition. SO then
it's smart to do a clean install which means formating the Hard drive and
then installing. Make sence?
"nrms" <nrms@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>I have a dual boot system XP/Vista on a single hard drive. How do I now
> delete the XP partition and convert the drive to just Vista alone?
>
> The boot manager files are currently installed on the XP partition (the
> frst
> partition on the drive).
>
> Thanks
> Nigel
>

I haven't tried this, but I would assume one could delete all the folders
and files from the XP partition (boot partition) with the exception of the
following hidden files/folders. These you would want to keep on that
partition as they may be used by Vista to boot. Then merge the two
partitions together.

--
Keith
"nrms" <nrms@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:1800D6E0-CAF8-4144-B32E-3D5B6CEC078D@microsoft.com...
>I have a dual boot system XP/Vista on a single hard drive. How do I now
> delete the XP partition and convert the drive to just Vista alone?
>
> The boot manager files are currently installed on the XP partition (the
> frst
> partition on the drive).
>
> Thanks
> Nigel
>